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  • Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

    Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America - Paperback

    Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America - Paperback

    By Candacy Taylor

About Candacy Taylor Books

CANDACY TAYLOR is an award-winning author, photographer, and cultural documentarian. Her work has been featured in more than fifty eighty media outlets, including The New Yorker, Newsweek, Oprah, Time Magazine, and the Atlantic. She curated Green Book, a traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian, and has received numerous fellowships and grant awards, including those from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Park Service, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Taylor has driven more than half a million miles documenting American culture, and after learning about the Green Book, she never looked at travel, or even America, the same way again. Taylor lives in Chicago.